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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered the ring until he left it, by 13 had won 17 amateur fights, at 16 turned professional, at 19 won the world's featherweight championship, lost it seven months later but won the world's lightweight title in 1930 by knocking out his opponent in the first round; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Married. Victor Mature, 45, hulking cinemactor (The Big Circus), and Joy Urwick, 25, British actress; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Tijuana, Mexico...
...dramatic ballerina, who has made modern ballet's earthy heroines her own, brought grace and precision to classical roles as well; and Herbert Ross, 33, choreographer of sex-swept ballets (Tristan, Metamorphoses) and nightclub acts; she for the third time (No. 2: Violinist Isaac Stern), he for the first; in Majorca, Spain...
Died. Jim Bottomley, 59, jaunty left-handed first baseman who helped bat the St. Louis Cardinals to the National League pennant four times in a decade (1922-32), in one game (1924) batted in twelve runs on six hits, the major league record; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...
...bigger than the rise in unemployment, indicated that many workers retired from the labor force. ¶Automakers scheduled production at 90% of the output at the same time last year. All told, the industry should produce 142,000 new cars this week v. 86,000 last week. For the first time in nearly four weeks, new cars rolled off General Motors' assembly line...